Going to DC with a friend for a couple days and am wondering if Hexbear has some ideas on what to do. We already have a list of the 4 (maybe 5) museums we’re going to, so probably don’t need any suggestions there. (Though feel free if somewhere was super cool to you.) Preferably things close to metro and/or downtown.

  • @HakFooEnglish
    11•26 days ago

    The Bureau of Engraving and Printing tour is a reasonably fun way to spend an hour and a half.

    Take the Acela to Baltimore and sigh that it’s the closest thing to HSR America can offer. There’s a nice aquarium there, or a well-renowned railway museum if you want to keep the theme. At the time I went (2016) the Acela fare was like 3x the standard Amtrak fare, and I think there might even be cheaper commuter-rail options.

    There’s a fiddly little island (Theodore Roosevelt Island) in the Potomac which would make for a nice hike, I recall it being conparatively deserted when I went.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]English
      5•26 days ago

      Take the Acela to Baltimore and sigh that it’s the closest thing to HSR America can offer. There’s a nice aquarium there, or a well-renowned railway museum if you want to keep the theme.

      The B&O is probably the best train museum ever, best I’ve been to for sure.

      Also Baltimore just has a lot of cool spots. Go to Fells Point if you’re there, really cool old dockworkers neighborhood with a lot of cool bars and stuff.